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Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel 

Author: Lucy Kincaid
Illustrator: Eric Kincaid
Genre: Traditional Literature
Ages: 3-7 years


Hansel and Gretel is about a brother and sister getting lost in the woods and one day found a gingerbread house. It all started when their stepmother is having a discussion with their father that they will just leave their children in the woods because they can’t provide for them anymore because they are poor. It takes time for the parents to have them lost because every time they will take them to the woods, Hansel will leave little pebbles or rocks. One day they fell asleep and they got lost, they found a gingerbread house which allured them where the witch lives. The witch tried to eat them but Gretel pushed her in the oven and took all her riches and escaped. They then returned back to their father and sold the riches to be able to live together again.


Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale and I would use this to read in class, especially to Pre-K and 1st graders. It is a good fairy tale that teaches morals on not to give up and to be strong together with the people you care. Illustration in this book is decent and it has a find this character activity by the end of the book, so it will be great for individual students or read aloud to a group and have them play in the end.
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